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Local ranches, including Straus Home Ranch, participating in innovative pilot programs: carbon sequestration, as collaboration with Native American tribes to revitalize traditional crafts (read).


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While on a photo shoot, the film crew from Outerknown stayed at our house for a few nights. Here’s the interview they published about our family & ranch history.


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Created by Vivien Straus

California Cheese Trail promotes artisan cheesemakers and family farmers, and is California’s leading artisan cheese resource. Created by Vivien Straus in 2010. Coming in November 2021, Vivien and her brother Michael are launching Cheese Trail Home Delivery, shipping gift boxes nationally.


Nibble and sip your way along Northern California’s Cheese Trail (July 15, 2021)

Straus Home Ranch’s cheese collection spreads the love for local artisan producers (January 19, 2021)

How California’s cheese trail avoided a meltdown (December 11, 2020)

Artisan Petaluma cheeses delivered to your door (January 26, 2021)

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Welcome to Straus Home Ranch: Longtime West Marin dairy family breathes new life into old homestead.
Read The Article


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Straus Home Ranch featured in the July 2015 issue of Sunset magazine:

“The Straus family is kind of a West Marin County aristocracy. In the early 1940’s, German and Dutch-born parents Bill and Ellen Straus established a dairy farm in these rolling hills above Tomales Bay, and Ellen helped save the region from urban development.”